Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's M-5 light tank in 90 days. Cole beat the deadline, and during the war Cadillac built 12,500 M-55. After the war, Cadillac assigned Cole to apply his tank know-how to building an experimental rear-engine Cadillac. It was a weird monster, with the engine in the back seat and dual rear tires. But during the icy winter of 1945-46 while his neighbors' cars skidded around the driveways, Cole's sped off with sure-handed ease. That car proved to Cole "that the rear engine provides better steering and handling...
...Thompson quit his job as a pressman for the Los Angeles Times seven months ago, spent up to 20 hours a day -and most of his savings-working with an engineering friend named Fritz Voigt on the long (20 ft.), low (30 in. at the hood) monster...
...Chicago monster artists will be conspicuous in an exhibition being readied for fall by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, to be billed as "The New Images of Man." From Chicago, at least, it appears that man is not looking good...
...Paris last week, pundits and plain citizens alike chattered with rage at a paper few of them had ever read-London's jingoistic, whopping (circ. 4,052,712 cut) that showed Charles de Gaulle and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, fused into a two-headed monster, laying a wreath on the grave of onetime French Premier and Nazi Collaborator Pierre Laval...
...visit a nearby physicist, leaving his crew to work on. As they dig deeper, the dinosaur tracks deepen as if the beast had been running. Farther on, sunk in the rock that ages ago was mud, they uncover the unmistakable spoor of a Jeep. Guess what the monster ate for dinner...